A corner stone in protecting victims of intimate partner violence and controlling violent acts in intimate relationships is the attitude of the population and of the appliers of law.
Silvia Kaugia
University of Tartu, Lecturer of Comparative Law
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A corner stone in protecting victims of intimate partner violence and controlling violent acts in intimate relationships is the attitude of the population and of the appliers of law.
The article analyses the legal treatment and legal regulation of domestic violence. Domestic violence is rampant in Estonia, yet the police is not notifid of every case, even the most brutal ones; and even in the reported cases, only a small percentage leads to a guilty verdict.
Human society is a complicated system in which orientation would be impossible without universal standards of behavior.